Could Drake have ran 90's era rap?

[Yakno1]

I feel like this thread is low key taking shots at the GOAT Drizzy but you guys are forgetting about LL Cool J


And... well Drizzy>>>>>>>>>LL

this right here is exactly why this thread was done

 

[tybo]

Hold the fukk up!!!! Did this niqqa just post a bunch of pics of bushes??

 

[MartyMcFly]

Like dudes have said, he would've been a niche artist like a lot of dudes were and he would've been able to eat as long as he didn't get out of line. There may have been some dudes who were studio gangsters then, but a lot of them would approach you to see if you really lived what you said you did. Rae said on Combat Jack that anytime Wu thought of doing a song with someone outside of the group, they would go to their hood and check them and see if the image matched up with real life. The world was in a different time then and the music was in a different more aggressive and combative stage. Most of the rappers on at that time were products of the crack era and like someone said, 1st of the month was a hit, hit em up was getting MTV play...hell, BIG referenced robbing pregnant women on Gimme the Loot..that stuff wouldn't fly in the mainstream today at all.

I don't even know if he could've ran with the Native Tongues because although they didn't rap about being hard and thugged out, they were still dudes who had no problem testing you. Busta told a story about De La Soul stepping to dudes in a club to watch Chris Lighty's back and how Queen Latifah pulled out a ratchet when it looked like things got out of hand. Look up stories on the Tunnel or read about the wild stuff that went on in LA during that time, dudes were anything but soft and the ones that were, they had their little success but they were eventually pushed out of the game. Puffy's rise to fame came after the death of Pac and BIG, when artist felt like maybe the music needed to go in a different direction, something else Busta spoke on in an interview a few years ago. People wanted to celebrate and dance and be happy after losing two stars in that fashion and Puffy, Mase, that whole bad boy movement in the late 90s was the perfect answer.

 

[KyokushinKarateMan]

Like dudes have said, he would've been a niche artist like a lot of dudes were and he would've been able to eat as long as he didn't get out of line. There may have been some dudes who were studio gangsters then, but a lot of them would approach you to see if you really lived what you said you did. Rae said on Combat Jack that anytime Wu thought of doing a song with someone outside of the group, they would go to their hood and check them and see if the image matched up with real life. The world was in a different time then and the music was in a different more aggressive and combative stage. Most of the rappers on at that time were products of the crack era and like someone said, 1st of the month was a hit, hit em up was getting MTV play...hell, BIG referenced robbing pregnant women on Gimme the Loot..that stuff wouldn't fly in the mainstream today at all.

I don't even know if he could've ran with the Native Tongues because although they didn't rap about being hard and thugged out, they were still dudes who had no problem testing you. Busta told a story about De La Soul stepping to dudes in a club to watch Chris Lighty's back and how Queen Latifah pulled out a ratchet when it looked like things got out of hand. Look up stories on the Tunnel or read about the wild stuff that went on in LA during that time, dudes were anything but soft and the ones that were, they had their little success but they were eventually pushed out of the game. Puffy's rise to fame came after the death of Pac and BIG, when artist felt like maybe the music needed to go in a different direction, something else Busta spoke on in an interview a few years ago. People wanted to celebrate and dance and be happy after losing two stars in that fashion and Puffy, Mase, that whole bad boy movement in the late 90s was the perfect answer.

Realest post in here.
I read the title of this thread and literally busted out laughing.
Even the rap back then that wasn't centered around thugging was still realer than drake, because they still came from real hoods and real struggle/street backgrounds.
Redman is a prime example. He's never really been considered "gangsta" rap, but The Funk Doctor would always let you know you with the quickness that a softie suburban street wannabe like Drake could get clapped up in a heartbeat.
Take Fab 5, or even The Bush Babees. Those dudes weren't "gangsta", but anyone one of them wild 'kids-from-the-streets' who made up those groups would've dragged Drake's lilly ass down an alleyway and beat the living snot out of him talking about he's a "rapper".

 

[CrimsonTider]

90s main stream was about the struggle, gettin out the hood or talkin about welfare..or fukkin bytches n disrespectin hoes as we should as men.. bruh we had top charting songs talkin bout the 1st of the fukkin month!! or I get around!! fukk a song like hit em up actually was playin on MTV n shyt could you imagine a diss song bein on top 10 countdowns n shyt nowa days??

2013 rap is about saving hoes n strippers, partying n smoking.. when the last time you hear rappers talkin about section 8 n shyt ?? like a mainstream rapper ?? none of em lived it so they cant rap bout it properly.. these new age rappers never understood the struggle of growin up in an era where mafukkas was ready to be bout some shyt over nothin..

even these supposed street rappers talk about buyin bytches bags n shoes n shyt

cash money done did a complete turn round from they 90s style you had BG n juvi n em talkin about beatin bytches up... ON POPULAR VIDEOS ON TV


let me ask you somethin

when the last time you even heard the term playa ?? these mafukka rappers aint tryna be playas or when the last time you heard some rappers talkin bout gaming bytches out they purse n shyt ?? these mafukkas out here buyin em purses n shyt!! the fukk part of the game is this?! some of the most popular rappers in the world right now have entire songs ON THEY ALBUMS dedicated to EX GIRL FRIENDS N STRIPPERS

Bs

 

[trick]

It's so fukking simple...90's rap was in the hardcore period and some of the nikkas came from hardcore hoods. Drake is from a rich neighborhood (richmond hill) and he did not fit that image whether if he was real or fake. simple

he's actually from forest hill, which is pretty wealthy as a whole. if he lived in richmond hill, he would've been another coli IT breh making six figures

 

[MartyMcFly]

Realest post in here.
I read the title of this thread and literally busted out laughing.
Even the rap back then that wasn't centered around thugging was still realer than drake, because they still came from real hoods and real struggle/street backgrounds.
Redman is a prime example. He's never really been considered "gangsta" rap, but The Funk Doctor would always let you know you with the quickness that a softie suburban street wannabe like Drake could get clapped up in a heartbeat.
Take Fab 5, or even The Bush Babees. Those dudes weren't "gangsta", but anyone one of them wild 'kids-from-the-streets' who made up those groups would've dragged Drake's lilly ass down an alleyway and beat the living snot out of him talking about he's a "rapper".

Word. The minute that stay schemin video drops and he's flexing his trigger finger, he would've been tested. And if the rapper didn't test him they would've sent someone in their crew to test them. Lol it's nothing nice about that era. Ask the dudes who used to get beat down at D & D studios

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Drake would have been in Dru Hill in the 90's or been signed to bad boy under Mase's label or been signed by Jermaine Dupree and been on so so def...honestly that would have been his options in the 90's

Wow....he's right

*reaches across the aisle*

 

[DoomzdayzV]

bless CrimsonTiders little heart. The boy is clueless.

 

[Will Ross]

Drake no Ross yes nobody would have known he was a co if it was not for the net

 

[smokeurobinson]

If u were to go back in time and place Comeback Season somewhere in the 90's it would have been highly recognized. If Mase had a high moment I dont see why Drake wouldnt have as well.

 

[Whitty Hutton]

LOL @ ran the 90's
There were females that would have ran this jew's pockets back then



And people mentioning LL being in the same lane as Drake...dumb. LL was already a vet that was one of the reasons many of the 90's rappers were even in the game. And LL making music for the ladies still didn't mean he was even 1/4th the sucka Aubrey is

 

[blockboy504]

Alot of hate in this thread smh

 

[Nomad1]

he's actually from forest hill, which is pretty wealthy as a whole. if he lived in richmond hill, he would've been another coli IT breh making six figures

Yeah I meant Forest Hill. I went to Richmond Hill one time to get my police check done for work and tha place is nice af. Bunch of wealthy jews

 

[ManBearPig]

Coolio, MC Hammer, and Vinalla Ice all ate well in the 90s. Why not Drake?